You're welcome Ronnie. No need to remove Mac Ports just yet. There are many ways to savely use the command line tool to handle Mac Ports. Some tips can be found here: http://guide.macports.org/ . And all the way through the learning process you can write to [email protected] for help and guidance. The command: sudo port -v selfupdate is very save and is just used to update Mac Ports before you start using it to install software and so on. But don't just listen to me and ask the mail list where many experienced Mac users are there to help you. What were you planning to use Mac Ports for?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ronnie Grubaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > So there is no menu or application to open and find a menu, and the only way to exercise any commands or options within Macports, is through the terminal application. I have been in the computer age for one year, this month and have always read that you need to be very experienced, before fooling with terminal commands. Maybe I need to learn how to uninstall Macports. The last thing I want to do, is end up with a serious problem. Thank you Jasper for your help, Ronnie G. > On Dec 22, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Jasper Frumau wrote: > > Use the application terminal (command line tool) listed under applications in your Mac, type the command and press enter. To learn how to use the terminal type help and press enter. To learn more about mac ports type man port and enter. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Ronnie Grubaugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Ronnie Grubaugh <[email protected]> >> Date: December 22, 2009 12:20:39 AM CST >> To: MacPorts <[email protected]> >> Subject: Accessing user command list???? >> >> I have installed Mac ports, but I can't find or figure out how to access user command list or menu. Please tell me how to access user option menu, or whatever it is called?. Because it says the first command to exercise is sudo port -v selfupdate, and I have no idea where such a command exist. Your help would be greatly appreciated thank you, Ronnie G. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >> > >
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